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But carrying glass bottles upstairs into the 3rd story of the building every 2 days is hard.

And, in Germany, there don't seem to be any 1L or 1.5L bottles, only 0.7L.

I drink 3-4L a day sometimes even 5. That's 6 bottles of 12 just for me.

And what micro-nano stuff is in those glas bottles? And what effect does it have on our bodies?

I've been drinking bottled water all my life. I could imagine some circulatory health effects. Or it's too small to matter.

In any case we're infested with plastic.

Regarding what someone wrote about developed vs undeveloped countries health, we eat food with very little nutrients. There's this story about 1 or 2 Indian women coming to the UK, and developing nutrient deficiencies because the food in India, what they were used to, was normal, but the food in the UK was watered down, glasshouse mass produced crap that never even saw daylight and was full of chemicals. And it's not just the UK.

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Why can't you drink tap water? I drink maybe 5 liters of bottled anything in a week.

There's a class thing to this - everyone I know who's working class refuses to drink tap water. Even if they're on a perfectly good system, it's 100% bottled water or soda all the time.

Was told that "tap water is for broke people"

Class? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that many trusted municipal water systems have been reveales to have temporary or extended contamination?

With toxins such as fluoride, indeed. When I was a child, my mother went crazy ordering fluoridated bottled water (in glass) until the City began to fluoridate the tap water supply. And my father is the guy who cleaned up lab spills and asbestos for a living. Then they tried to fluoridate me with Prozac prescriptions. It's literally insane, I tell you: insane.

I asked! These are New Yorkers, we have good water.

To your point though, there was an issue with lead in schools and in NYCHA that may be at play here.

>I drink 3-4L a day

I dont want to doubt you but from my own experience that seems insane. Is there a medical/enviromental reason for? Do you take salt tablets as well?

I drink a single glass of water in the morning, 200ml and I have a .7L glass bottle because I dislike the way plastic tastes. But thats a hard maximum that I could tolerate drinking.

I've also had blood tests done that do not show any dehydration in the slightest so I'm just curious why/how anyone could drink that much water without poisoning themselves.

Well, for starters why do you need to carry water upstairs? What's wrong with tap water? I drink tap water all the time and only get carbonated mineral water in bottles.

I recall reading some story about a German traveler some century and more ago who was visiting London and was amazed by how people were tricked into buying bottled water when there was perfectly good tap water available at the turn of a knob.

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